Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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F tl QQ i --.., lf as sr-5 l il' T 'ww' l me i lf i , i i i TQ li l b , ,ff made a Touchdown and Then large sign was noT an we goT To sTand up, iunior exclusive eTTorT oT The Vanessa Tinsley said. cheerleading group. The arT Thmuqhouy, me game club Took Tuvrns drawing and izheerleaders promoTed spiriT Colormg ll' Laulla Barrell' oeginning wiTh The TradiTion Cl1eef'eadefS-Sa'd- JT running Through a banner BGTEOVG GGCTT Qame NiTh The TooTball Team. The OVGVTUVGS Ol lVl9VTCl5lWlP Were made by members oT The Good SporTsmanship League. We wenT over and meT The GSL members Trom The oTher school, sophomore GSL member Mike Koehn said. We usually iusT Talked abouT The Grasping a sTuTTed Tiger To display Friday enThusiasm, junior Leslie Les- Ter waiTs Tor iunior KaTy Bell To com- pleTe The Task oT rolling up her ieans To show oTT her crazy socks. Labeled, Tagged and escorTed by cheerleader Chris Dailey. receiver Mike ReiTher's and quarTerback Johnny Corneaux's moThers are broughT inTo The gym where Their sons were blindTolded and oblivious To The secreT kiss They would laTer receive during The Spring Branch pep rally. , ,i 5 M game in general, buT when There was a big rivalry, like The Spring Branch game, we Told Them how bad we were going To beaT Them. Preceding nighTly conTesTs boTh aT Tully STadium and ouT oT Town, morning pep rallies were organized To inspire spiriT and spur The Team on To vicTory. One Type oT organizaTion ThaT added To The goings on was The clubs wiTh memberships consisTing exclusively oT seniors. Une oT The major acTiviTies oT Senior Women was To encourage aThleTic groups. We wrapped The lockers and houses oT TooTball players, PresidenT Karn Bonura said. Adding considerable zesT To The pep rallies was The band. We always sTarTed pep rallies wiTh Three songs, SpiriT ii fi ci

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XMNXW J gli SporTing gliTTering gold hafdsigns ,urmw s..irpx 'iH1 Team and .lass 4' 'hu .mm Deo rally. Parvu-4-.lv rm -.Mill li-.vs rolled up rg The lime .nv iuwws Karen Robinson Page Crow.sTl'i Mary Alice Torres Gina Pimer- Kano HIQYOIWXYTYWUS Sllefl SML! V91 Debbie Church Kim lxluqurz and Kelly STewarT. s The brighT lighTs cenTered on The courT The players began To Teel The unmisTalcable Tension OT a dream ThaT is wiThin one's grasp. Blaclc and gold porn poms, encouraging hand- held banners, and rallying voices moTivaTed The Team on To Triumph in The TirsT challenge. Then came a disappoinTmenT. Nervousness was aT iTs peak as iT all came down To The lasT eTTorT. Sorrow, anger, and Tears emerged as The dream was shaTTered. For The TirsT Time in many years The volleyball Team was The recipienT oT supporT and spiriT Trom The sTudenT body. PredicTably The vasT maioriTy oT viTaliTy was direcTed Towards The varsiTy TooTball Team. l-lalTTime TesTiviTies consisTing OT elaboraTe TormaTions were perTorrned weekly by both The TigereTTes and The band To enTerTain The crowds. The ligereTTes danced Two rouTines aT halTTime and made visible Their supporT of a Tiger vicTory during each game. l-loweverl The drill Team members were required To sTay seaTed iiunless we By doing Their rerfirfwf. Ol In Tiger Time :emma Clnrig Darla Miriam Cade' D:,f!a Qgmmof Ldufo BENCH f: J lvl ff Blirigg 'arf-:fr r' --f. ff,fw, .. A-11 e '.. 5,f:1ff ral r

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iunior Jimmy KeaThley said. Then we did The TighT song and The TooTball players and cheerleaders came in. During The pep rally we did one more song and we ended every Time wiTh The alma maTer. Cheerleaders sTirred up crowds aT each rally by leading sTudenTs in Tamiliar cheers and perTorming slciTs. My TavoriTe slciT was The one where Eric GarreTT and l sang lT's Tiger lime To The Tune oT lT's Miller lime, cheerleader David Jones said. 'l'igereTTes added Tire To The Tury by assisTing in yells and perTorming coordinaTed hand rouTines wiTh songs played by The band. Receiving less aTTenTion were baslceTball and swimming. These conTesTs served as a much needed Torm oT winTer diversion. Groups involved in providing enTerTainmenT aT Tall and winTer sporTing evenTs were occasionally required To aTTend. 'l'igereTTes had To go To RecuperaTing from The exhaushon broughT on by The sfullv lW0l.T'9e suiT senior David Williams Tries To ,-egiain some sfrengfh affer The STraTTord pep Fdllv- Dressed in wesTern wear sen Karen Bonura Senior Women pref den? cheers on The senior class ds- ing The SouTh T-lousTon pep fall, Senior Men and Women frequenv wore designafed clothing To prg moTe group unify. Two baslceTball games and dance aT one, Tinsley said. Cheerleaders also aTTended The disTricT baslceTball games held in The coliseum. We wenT To every game. Jones said, and we wenT ouT on The courT during brealcs To lead cheers. Band members conTinued a volunTary sysTem Tor baslceTball game aTTendance. Whoever wanTs To go does, sophomore JonaThan PreTo said. We had a couple of pracTices iT we were going To play aT The game. Baseball games were enhanced by large, supporTive, crowds and vicTorious ouTcomes. STudenTs such as junior Kim Cleveland journeyed To The games because a loT oT oTher people were There, and because The games were exciTing To waTch. ATTendance was appreciaTed by The aThleTes who believed They played beTTer when waTched by a large crowd oT specTaTors.